Jamaican Jerk Chicken

Introduction: Jamaican Jerk Chicken

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This Jamaican Jerk Chicken is an awesome recipe. I lived in CT with my fiancé (died in 2007) and he went to New Haven to a client Jamaican man that owned a Authentic Jamaican restaurant.... the gentle man told him how to make the Jerk Chicken.Ingredients:

* If Smoking: Before moving to an apartment, we owned a smoker and smoked the chicken … resulting in a 100% improved tasting chicken! The differences between Baking verse Smoking the chicken in ingredients:

Put the chicken pieces in your smoker and wait for about an hour. After one hour, turn the chicken pieces to cook the other side.

The chicken pieces should be done cooking after about two hours. Use a meat thermometer to check if the chicken pieces are done. Check the temperature of the thickest part of the chicken thigh and make sure that it is about 160 degrees Fahrenheit. If the temperature is 160 degrees Fahrenheit, the chicken pieces are done cooking and you have successfully finished smoking chicken.

One thing has always puzzled me about this dish. How, exactly, did you know the chicken was a jerk before you started? Did you know them personally? Some kind of birdie psychological profile? Did you catch it running for public office? =)

Good afternoon, when my best friend and I were together, he worked a gig over seas, and learned this from a Jamaican Chef who owned a huge restaurant there... So we've been doing this since 1980's up until his death in 2002 at age 46 yrs.